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1811, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Darley, The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Volume 2:

The chief note of a scholar, you say, is to govern his passions; wherefore I do take all patiently.

1897, Halifax Courier:

Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit.

1911, Homiletic review: Volume 62:

It is the peculiar note of this ministry that it stands in the will of Christ, which the minister knows, to which he is consecrated, and which he illustrates in his own character.

(UK dialectal, Northern England,Ireland,Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow gives milk; the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.

1888, S. O. Addy Gloss, Words Sheffield p160:

A cow is said to be in note when she is in milk.

1922, P. MacGill, Lanty Hanlon p11:

A man who drank spring water when his one cow was near note.

1996, C. I. Macafee Conc., Ulster Dict. at Note:

Be at her note, be near note, come forward to her note, of a cow or sow, be near the time for calving or farrowing.

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.

A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.

Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

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